Long time UK-based biographer Mick Wall recently unveiled his new book on Motörhead legend Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister called Lemmy: The Definitive Biography. Wall, a former music journalist who briefly worked as Motörhead’s publicist, first embarked on a series of conversations with the singer in the late '90s.

The New York Post has published an overview of the book with some excerpts this location:

Lemmy, who wore one pair of black pants for 25 years, was an unabashed speed freak until his final days. In the 1970s, when (false) rumors spread that Keith Richards had had his blood drained and replaced with newer, healthier blood, Lemmy’s manager reportedly considered the same procedure for his client.

According to Lemmy, they took him to a doctor, who found his blood so awash in drugs, he was told not to mess with it.

“He took a blood test,” Lemmy said. “We went back a week later for the results and he said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t give him whole blood, it will probably kill him!’ My blood at the time had evolved into some sort of organic soup — all kinds of trace elements in it.” (For the record, while Lemmy told this story many times over the years, his manager denied it.)

The 320 page book is out now via Orion and is described as follows:

In “The Ace of Spades”, Motörhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, “Actually, I want to go the day before forever. To avoid the rush…” This is his strange but true story.

Brutally frank, painfully funny, wincingly sad, and always beautifully told, Lemmy: The Definitive Biography is the story of the only rock ’n’ roller never to sell his soul for silver and gold, while keeping the devil, as he put it, 'very close to my side'. From school days growing up in North Wales, to first finding fame in the mid-‘60s with the Rockin' Vicars (“We were very big up north, I had a Zephyr 6”); from being Jimi Hendrix's personal roadie (“I would score acid for him”), to leading Hawkwind to the top of the charts in 1972 with Silver Machine (“I was fired for taking the wrong drugs”); from forming Motörhead (“I wanted to call the band Bastard but my manager wouldn't let me”), whose iconoclastic album No Sleep ’Til Hammersmith entered the UK charts at No. 1 - and its title into the lexicon of hip-speak.

Based on Mick's original interviews with Lemmy conducted over numerous years, along with the insights of those who knew him best - former band mates, friends, managers, fellow artists and record business insiders - this is an unputdownable story of one of Britain's greatest characters. As Lemmy once said of Wall, 'Mick Wall is one of the few rock writers in the world who can actually write and seems to know anything about rock music. I can and do talk to him for hours - poor bastard.'

With the hard part of his journey now over, Lemmy is set to become a legend. Lemmy: The Definitive Biography explains exactly how that came to be.